Champs Eight 2022
The 2nd VIII started the term with a bang at Champs Eight, winning their category and beating many 1st VIIIs. After a chonky (and very set!) row up to marshalling, including some impressive roll ups with pauses at ¼ slide, […]
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Florence Bradshaw
Florence first noviced in Michaelmas 2019 after thoroughly enjoying Quergs. In Lent 2019 she rowed in seat 5 for W3 and Lent Bumps was her first ever race. Despite catching some crabs during bumps she thoroughly enjoys rowing and is […]
Virtual May Bumps 2020
By Millie Hopkins About 2 weeks after the end of Lent Bumps, the global COVID-19 pandemic was rapidly spreading. For the first time since the bubonic plague, the university closed and sent all of its students home. As members of […]
Karla Boxall
Karla noviced in 2016 and quickly fell in love with the sport. She is a dedicated bow sider and has rowed for NCBC every term since in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd VIIIs over 7 sets of bumps with a […]
Millie Hopkins
Millie is a PhysNatSci who matriculated at Newnham in 2018. She noviced with NCBC that Michaelmas and discovered her love for all things rowing. In her first senior term she rowed in the Lent Headship crew, followed by a successful […]
Shaaroni Leionaonapoina’ole Wong
Many who knew Shaaroni before her rowing days would say that her transition to cox was an unlikely one, given her strong distaste for both the cold and early mornings. And yet, four years after Shaaroni first sat in the […]
Lucy Walker
Lucy noviced in 2018 in her second year at Cambridge and was delighted to finally find a sport she loves. She has rowed in W3 and W2, stroking the winning Fairbairns W2 crew in 2019 and has a bumps record […]
Emma Gough
Emma tried rowing in the Easter term of second year and was hooked. Despite being “absolutely tiny” she has rowed both sides for NW1, W2 and W3. Emma and Emma were joint social secs on the 2020-21 committee, organising virtual […]
Rhiannon Smith
Rhiannon started rowing aged 11 with Headington School Boat Club Oxford where she learned to row and scull, securing two national medals. After arriving at Newnham, she stroked W2 to blades in her first Lents (2017). She was Lower Boats […]
Emma Brightman
Emma is a 4th year Earth Scientist who joined NCBC in 2019. After rowing in the 1st Novice VIII, she was completely hooked and even began to embrace the early starts. That Lent, she rowed as stroke in the 3rd […]